Category: Pets

Have you been searching for Pleasant Ridge home rentals? Finding a home is never an easy task, and it may be made even more difficult if you happen to be a pet owner. On top of all of your other concerns, you may be restricted by which landlords allow tenants to have pets in their Hyde Park OH home rentals. To get past this obstacle, you simply need to arm yourself with a little knowledge (and sometimes the power of persuasion) and persevere in your search.

As you look over the available listings, you will want to note which ones allow pets. You can find home listings in more ways than one, in the housing section of the local newspaper, or on classified and rental websites found via internet search. If you live in an urban area, you may want to check out the local real estate agents. Often they will have listings that cannot be found anywhere else. Ask friends, family, and neighbors if they have heard of any rentals that are available or soon to be vacant. Listings can be found on local community boards, and often times a landlord will put a For Rent sign on the property.

Listings online or in the newspaper are likely to blatantly state whether or not they allow pets, and these are the simplest way of discovering whether or not you should even bother contacting a landlord or agent. At times a listing will fail to deliver this information especially if it is published in a newspaper, which usually will charge by the letter for a classified advertisement. An online ad that fails to mention whether pets are allowed or not may simply be an oversight on the part of the poster, in any case, you have everything to gain from simply calling to inquire about such a listing.

You should always look into the market well ahead of when you plan on moving, but people with pets should be especially careful about planning ahead. Because having a pet can seriously limit your options, you will want to see a great range of homes before deciding on one. This way, you would not settle for anything less than what you want. After all, the home will be home for you and your pet so you will want to be as comfortable with it as is humanly possible. Start looking at least two months before you plan to move.

It can be helpful to put your name on the waiting lists at home complexes where you would want to live. Turnover can be high in especially large complexes, so it is possible that a unit may be vacated just in time for you to move into it. Naturally, you will want to ensure that such home buildings allow pets. In your searches, do not be immediately put off if a landlord does not like the idea of pets, they may be open to a bit of persuasion. This becomes all the more plausible when the landlord in question is an individual, as opposed to a large company.